Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > When this new behavior was introduced, and I migrated our databases to
> > the new PgSQL version (dump/restore), the locale of all my databases
> > were silently changed from C to US_en. This broke one application in a
> > very subtle way because of slightly different sort behavior in the
> > different locale. Tracking it down was quite tricky.
> >
> > PgSQL was just a little too helpful in this case.
>
> Seems pretty nasty thing to do. I would so vote for making -E and -W
> and --locate required flags to initdb. Oh the amount of time I've spent
> with people in IRC..
What about folks who don't use locales?
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